The results are in! We’re thrilled to announce the winners of the Pulumi Deploy and Document Challenge, where we invited the community to build with Pulumi, deploy something awesome, and document the journey for fellow developers.
From ticket generators to mini-reddits to PR quality management systems, the submissions we received were full of creativity, technical depth, and generosity in sharing your learnings.
Thank you to everyone who participated, we hope you learned some new things and had fun along the way.
Let’s meet the winners!
🎉 Congratulations to…
🚀 Fast Static Website Deployment
@mohamednizzad tackled this prompt with a game dev twist! They thoroughly walk us through how they developed and deployed a web game as a static website to AWS using Pulumi.
Check out the color recall game and see how many levels you can beat!
🔐 Shhh, It's a Secret!
@cached_engineer built an OpenFeature Provider for Pulumi ESC, written in Go.
Turn configuration and secret management into a first-class citizen in your delivery pipelines!
🛠️ Get Creative with Pulumi and GitHub
@dev_kiran’s Pulstack CLI tool makes deploying a static site to S3 or GitHub Pages a one-minute task — no joke.
Built with Pulumi’s Automation API and GitHub provider, this submission nails the spirit of the prompt: getting creative and productive.
Prizes
Each winner will receive:
The winner of each prompt will receive:
- $1,000 USD
- DEV++ membership
- Exclusive DEV Badge
- A gift from the DEV Shop
All Participants with a valid submission will receive a completion badge on their DEV profile.
Our Sponsor
Thank you to Pulumi for sponsoring this challenge and giving the community a chance to build and deploy something awesome!
For anyone interested in learning more about Pulumi, we encourage you to join PulumiUP 2025 on May 6 at 9 am ET / 2 pm GMT / 4 pm PT ( May 7 at 9 am AEST).
PulumiUp is Pulumi's free virtual conference featuring real-world enterprise platform engineering success stories, technical demos, and expert discussions.
You'll get to hear about the trends, best practices, and lessons learned in:
- Platform Engineering & DevOps
- Cloud and IaC
- Security
And more!
What's Next?
More DEV Challenges are always just around the corner, following the tag to stay up-to-date:
#devchallenge
Thank you again to everyone who participated! We hope you had fun, felt challenged, and maybe added a thing or two to your professional profile. See you next time!
Interested in being a volunteer judge for future challenges? Learn more here!
Top comments (19)
Congrats @mohamednizzad, @cached_engineer, and @dev_kiran!!
Thank you very much @jess
Thank you @jess 🙏
Thank you @jess 😀
Congrats
I was desperate on this challenge as It took me some genuine effort for about a week and I am humbled to know that my submission has been picked as one of the winning submissions.
While I am thankful for the dev.to team and the Pulumi challenge organizers, I sincerely acknowledge all those who read, commented, reacted and experimented with my submission.
I dedicate this win to all the fellow members of dev.to who submitted their entry to this challenge where each of the submissions has something to learn from their unique experience deploying to cloud using Pulumi IaC and beyond.
Let's learn this wonderful tool to leverage its potential for seamless deployment and everything Pulumi has to offer.
Thank you all again.
Nizzad
Huge thanks to DEV Community and Pulumi for hosting such an incredible challenge! It was an awesome experience 🙌🫶
Congrats!
Thank you @ben 🙏
Thank you @ben 😀
Thank you @ben
Pretty cool seeing folks cook up all these creative tools with Pulumi. Like building with Legos except you end up with real stuff on the internet. But I gotta askwhat makes a project stand out the most in a challenge like this: originality or how well it's explained?
Loved this challenge! Kudos to the DEV Community — I definitely learned a lot.
Congratulations to the winners
Congrats to the winners!!
Nicely written! Relatedly, fan-made projects like pokefusionpro.com have been really taking off.
Congratulations to the winners!!
Well deserved
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